Today, I release another arcade classic clone for the venerable Commodore VIC 20. This time it is based on the 1980 Stern hit, Berzerk. It did not take a span of 24-years to complete like Quikman possessed me, just a mere couple of months between commuter rail rides and some weekend tinkering. Still, it came [...]
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Berzerk MMX
Mar 5
During the Amiga heyday in the early 1990s, I wrote a standalone BBS program called ‘Hack & Slash’. It was a port from an Apple ][ BASIC program, but heavily customized and enhanced using C and “modern” telecommunications and protocols for color, graphics, and sound. I thought I was really clever at the time writing [...]
Legacy Engineering Group
Dec 25
A nice Christmas gift surprise arrived yesterday in the mail for me — it was a 14-month old order I made with this online store dubbed Legacy Engineering Group. From what was reported, between health issues and an unprecedented demand for this product, it made for an equally unprecedented wait for me. No worries, as [...]
Mega-Cart ROM dump
Dec 23
A clever programmer (Daniel) created this special tool for Mega-Cart that does appropriate bank-switching and dumps the memory blocks to an IEC-based device — such as a Commodore 1581 floppy at .5mb chunks or the full 2mb dump of the cartridge to a more modern uIEC/SD device. There were some failure issues on every attempt, [...]
GP2x Wiz
Nov 25
Here are some pictures of my (early) Christmas gift running my VIC 20 games: Click for hi-res image:
